Bailhache (surname) explained

Bailhache, from Norman French baille hache meaning to "give axe" or to "bear axe", perhaps used as an occupational surname for an executioner or a woodman, is a surname known from Jersey, England, and elsewhere. Notable people with this surname include:

• (born 1937), French painter
• Clement Bailhache (1856–1924), English lawyer and judge
• Jean Bailhache (1911–?), French author and translator
• John Bailhache (1787–1857), 10th mayor of Columbus, Ohio
• Sir Clement Meacher Bailhache (1856 - 1924), English Commercial lawyer and judge, Leeds
• Sir Philip Bailhache (born 1946), Jersey politician and lawyer, Bailiff of Jersey (1994-2009)
• Robin Bailhache (born 1937), a former Australian Test cricket match umpire
• Sir William Bailhache (born 1953), Jersey lawyer, incumbent Bailiff of Jersey since 2015, brother of Philip Bailhache
• Edmund James Quentin Bailhache (born 1955, Chelmsford), English lawyer, practising in Taunton.